Approaches to Byzantine architecture and its decoration : studies in honor of Slobodan Ćurčić / edited by Mark J. Johnson, Robert Ousterhout, and Amy Papalexandrou

Includes bibliographical references and index

A tribute to Slobodan Ćurčić, scholar and friend / Svetlana Popović -- Introduction: Approaches to Byzantine architecture and the contribution of Slobodan Ćurčić / Mark J. Johnson, Robert Ousterhout, and Amy Papalexandrou -- Polis/Arsinoë in late antiquity : a Cypriot town and its sacred sites / Amy Papalexandrou -- The syntax of spolia in Byzantine Thessalonike / Ludovico V. Geymonat -- Church building and miracles in Norman Italy : texts and topoi / Mark J. Johnson -- Armenia and the borders of medieval art / Christina Maranci -- Change in Byzantine architecture / Marina Mihaljević -- Prolegomena for a study of royal entrances in Byzantine churches : the case of Marko's monastery / Ida Sinkević -- The rose window : a feature of Byzantine architecture? / Jelena Trkulja -- Between the mountain and the lake : tower, folklore, and the monastery at Agios Vasileios near Thessalonike / Nikolas Bakirtzis -- Life in the Late Byzantine tower : examples from northern Greece / Jelena Bogdanović -- Imperial and aristocratic funerary panel portraits in the Middle and Late Byzantine periods / Katherine Marsengill -- Man or metaphor? Manuel Panselinos and the Protation frescoes / Matthew J. Milliner -- Two Byzantine churches of Silivri/Selymbria / Robert Ousterhout -- Interpreting medieval architecture through renovations : the roof of the old basilica of San Paolo fuori le mura in Rome / Nicola Camerlenghi -- The edifices of the new Justinian : Catherine the Great regaining Byzantium / Asen Kirin